The Anima and The Animus

(Granger:) We will answer your question on the purpose and nature of the anima and the animus. Carl Jung was the first, we believe, to write from the earth of the nature of this two-halved consciousness. His writing does not discuss the spiritual aspect of this dual nature. That is, it does not discuss the purpose and function of the anima and the animus in terms of the nature of the High-soul, for example. Of course, at that time he was writing in the framework of a professional psychologist in the physical earth. Following the writing on Two Hands Clapping, this is the appropriate time to present this material.

The anima represents the female nature of consciousness, the female aspect of life, while the animus is the term given to represent the male aspect of life. In physical life, the anima (female) is present to some degree in the male nature while the animus (male) is present to some degree in the female nature. We will stay for a few moments with the physical realm until we get the ideas established.

The anima is found, to some extent, in any male and its purpose there, or at least part of its purpose, is to round out some of the male personality, to make the male personality somewhat more presentable in terms of acceptance and comprehension. A male personality with zero anima nature would be intolerably one-sided. It would lack the depth of comprehension necessary to give any form of completeness to the personality. It would lack the perspective, the depth of comprehension given by two eyes. It would have no ability to comprehend the deeper meditation of the mind. It would see no beauty in the sunset; it could feel no real sense of love; it could not comprehend compassion. It could never learn to daydream; it could not benefit from reverie or meditation.

A female personality, on the other hand, with zero animus in its nature would be of very little value in breaking through the experiences of life. It would simply retire to deep reverie and meditation; it would become lost in daydreams. It would have no thrust to break through into new experiences. In other words, it would be filled with love, meditation, fine shades of meaning and emotion, but it would have no driving thrust to "make it so." It is in the very essence of the High-soul that we find the source of these halves of supporting personality. (We could add that the nature of the two halves of male and female is inherent in all of nature). The anima and the animus perform essentially a creating function within the soul. They bring into being that which the high-mind of the soul designs and patterns. They give living existence to the patterned concept. They make it so.

A second purpose of the anima and the animus in the High-soul is to bring into reality the experiences received from the various aspects of living received through the personalities in various dimensions. Let us explain. A given High-soul has many personalities of different forms and natures living in different planes. These experiences, being fed into the soul create a vast array of awareness in the High-soul's mind and being. The synergistic effect, the sum-total of this vast awareness, creates a sense of awareness above that of the combined addition of all the experiences. Let us use a little illustration.

Suppose that you send three boys out to a farm, telling them to return and tell you what they see and hear. You wait a little while, then one boy returns to say he saw a horse and also many cattle. A second boy returns to say he saw a very large barn with very long rows of milking machine installations. The third boy returns to say he saw a beautiful house with a man, his wife, and three children having dinner, and all were talking and laughing. Now each of the boys knows only that which he saw, however, as you put all the pieces together you see a large dairy farm, where there is considerable prosperity and a great amount of happiness. You begin to get feelings about the man and his family and how they live. You draw up a picture in your mind of this family, and you want to know more about them. You may decide to pay them a visit. Now you have done much more than just add together that which each of the boys saw. You filled in the spaces in between; you gave a certain degree of completion to the concept. Likewise, the High-soul, in its mind, processes all the information received from the experiences of its different personalities in the different dimensions of life. From this information it creates new and changing concepts concerning the nature of the "beingness" of consciousness. And out of these ever expanding concepts, new awareness, new being, new reality is created.

Life in terms of each High-soul is not unlike a canvas where a painting is started at the centre and gradually expands outward in all directions across the canvass, creating a meaningful and ever expanding scene. The anima and the animus are the elements of the High-soul that create reality out of this expanding experience. Continuously the High-soul's effort creates this ever-expanding sense of reality out of the experiences received from its various dimensions of life and from its personalities.